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MySQL Explain Yourself!

I have a bunch of servers over at The Planet down in Texas and they are a great bunch of techies. One of their DBA’s just posted a very interesting tidbit that I didn’t know about as far as using EXPLAIN with MySQL to get an explaination as to what is happening in a query.

You can check it out here:

http://blog.theplanet.com/2008/11/13/mysql-explain-yourself/

J.J. Merrick on December 4, 2008 | Filed Under ColdFusion

2 Comments

Ben Nadel  on December 4th, 2008

That’s an awesome command. Thanks for the tip; I’ve never seen that before.

Eric  on December 4th, 2008

WE’ve come to really like that little command!

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